Date of source: Sunday, January 11, 2009
Scholars and preachers must be trained in a new religious discourse in order to attract the youth and face of the chaos of fatwás which Islamic religious satellite channels broadcast.
Date of source: Friday, December 19, 2008
Al-Dustūr reports on Mustafá al-Jindī’s request to forbid unauthorized people from issuing fatwás.
Date of source: Monday, July 21, 2008
Egyptian parliamentarian Muhsin Rādī argues on behalf of Shaykh Abd al-Azīz Ibrāhīm, the owner of the Grand Hyatt hotel in Cairo, and on the behalf of all hotel owners to enshrine their right to refuse to serve alcohol on the premises of their hotels. Rādī presents his case to the Islamic Research...
Date of source: Saturday, October 18, 2008
The author talks about an interview that involved Jamāl al-Bannā and Azhar scholars. The Azhar scholars reminded al-Bannā he was old and al-Bannā called for the purification of jurisprudence. He also discusses the fact that fatwás concerning the behavior and dress of women as sexual objects have...
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2008
The Islamic thinker Jamāl al-Bannā has issued a number of controversial fatwás recently. In this article Muslim scholars criticize al-Bannā and question his credentials.
Date of source: Monday, April 21, 2008
Claire Naṣīf comments on a fatwā delivered by a Palestinian shaykh affiliated to the Hamās faction in which he called for his countrymen to kill Egyptian boarders troops when they overthrow Egypt’s boarders at Gaza.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The author Ṣalāh al-Dīn Ḥāfiz criticizes the Egyptian regime of misusing religious institutions, whether Islamic or Christian, in order to achieve political gains, warning of the harmful consequences of such policies.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Muḥammad Nūr reports on the opinions of Egyptian Muslim scholars about a recent Fatwá allowing time-limited marriage contracts.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Muḥammad Nūr gauges the opinions of Muslim scholars on the decision of the Azhar to dismiss Dr. ‘Izzat ‘Aṭiyyah for releasing a Fatwá demanding that female workers breastfeed their male colleagues.
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2007
The article is a personal interpretation of Islam presented by al-Nogaidan. He explores his experiences with Islam, beginning with extremist ideologies that were fostered in Saudi Arabia, to his realization of Islam as a try religion of peace.